Can you Speel It?

Courtesy, as pretty much always, of Bryan A. Garner, here’s a list of 25 of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language.

accommodate

committee

consensus

definitely

embarrass

expedite

grammar

harass

hors d’oeuvre

innovate

inoculate

lieu

millennium

minuscule

misspelling

noticeable

occurrence

pavilion

persevere

playwright

receive

restaurateur

separate

supersede

ukulele

Commit these to memory, and should you ever find yourself needing to accommodate a ukulele player who wishes to receive an inoculation from a playwright while persevering at his art in a pavilion, you’ll be spared the embarrassment of making any innovative misspellings, whether minuscule or easily noticeable.